Now Wall Street Journal joins in

Lots of great Panama coverage in the US news papers recently. This one from Wall Street Journal A Booming Panama City Awaits Noriega’s Return.

It has lots of little funny anecdotes contrasting Panama’s past with it’s modern present:

Old Panama City had a cozy, almost familial air to it. Anybody who was anybody was related by blood or marriage. That was brought home forcefully to me on my first visit to the country. I was covering the 1987 riots that eventually led to Mr. Noriega’s downfall, when unbeknownst to me, my future father-in-law, the deputy administrator of the Panama Canal and a man proud of his Sicilian bloodline, asked Panamanian and U.S. military police to give me some rough treatment.

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I just read that you can get free access to the Wall Street Journal with a thing called a netpass from: http://news.congoo.com

Andrew Tobias blogged this and I thought it was a good tip.

Posted by: Tyler at February 19, 2007 09:09 AM